Religious Fundamentalism and Political Extremism

This book explores the relationships between fundamentalist religious belief, political extremism and outbreaks of religiously inspired violence. Is the post-Cold War world increasingly violent and is this violence the result of strident religious understandings of how societies should be organized? Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Return of Martyrdom: Honour, Death and Immortality, Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi; Chapter 3 Two Religious Meaning Systems, One Political Belief System, Daphna Canetti-Nisim; Chapter 4 Religious Violence and the Myth of Fundamentalism, Michael Barkun; Chapter 5 The Uniqueness of Islamic Fundamentalism and the Fourth Wave of International Terrorism, Ben-dor Gabriel, Pedahzur Ami; Chapter 6 Jewish Self-Defence and Terrorist Groups Prior to the Establishment of the State of Israel, Arie Perliger, Leonard Weinberg; Chapter 7 Counting the Causes and Dynamics of Ethnoreligious Violence, Jonathan Fox; Chapter 8 Reflections on Fascism and Religion, Roger Eatwell;